Jeremiah 6:14
English Standard Version
14 They have healed the wound of my people lightly,
saying, (A)‘Peace, peace,’
(B)when there is no peace.
Jeremiah 6:14
Amplified Bible
14
“They have treated superficially the [bloody] broken wound of My people,
Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
When there is no peace.
Jeremiah 6:14
Contemporary English Version
14 (A) All they ever offer
to my deeply wounded people
are empty hopes for peace.
Jeremiah 6:14
Easy-to-Read Version
14 They should bandage the wounds my people have suffered,
but they treat their wounds like small scratches.
They say, ‘It’s all right, everything is all right.’
But it is not all right!
Jeremiah 6:14
Living Bible
14 You can’t heal a wound by saying it’s not there! Yet the priests and prophets give assurances of peace when all is war.
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